If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.

I feel that any man that tries, any man that comes out with something we like, is a good man. A man doesn't have to be Leonardo Da Vinci to be sincere.

I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Perfectionists are their own devils.

Our dreams make us large.

My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have money to support it and to live in the kind of house I liked.